Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) c.1477–1478 Tempera on wood, 54.6 x 44.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The identity of the sitter of this portrait is unknown. It is an early work by Ghirlandaio, and…
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Ritratto di vecchio con nipote (Portrait of an Old Man with his Grandson) 1490 Tempera on poplar wood, 62.7 x 46.3 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris It has sometimes been proposed to identify the old man with a…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Retrato de un hombre (Portrait of a Man) 1623–1630 Oil on canvas, 51.4 × 40 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Luis de Góngora y Argote 1622 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 40.6 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Velázquez‘s abilities as both painter and observer make him one of the great portraitists of Western painting; this early work is…
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Cardinal Niccolò Albergati? c.1438 Oil on oak, 34 × 29.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna During a peace congress in Arras in 1435, van Eyck made a silverpoint drawing (Dresden), in which he not only recorded the physiognomy…
Guercino (1591-1666) Ritorno del figliol prodigo (Homecoming of the Prodigal Son) 1619 Oil on canvas, 107 × 143.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Compare: Guercino (1591-1666) Il ritorno del figliol prodigo 1654–1655 Timken Museum of Art, San Diego
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Old Woman and Boy with Candles c.1616–1617 Oil on panel, 62.5 x 77 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Étude de tête (Study of a Head) Mid 1800s-early 1900s Oil on canvas, 43.5 x 33.3 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) c.1588 Oil on canvas, 63 x 52 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Tintoretto painted this self-portrait for the German goldsmith and art dealer Hans Jakob König who, based in Venice, was building a collection of artists’…
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Portrait d’un vieil homme (Portrait of an Old Man) s.d. Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 38.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington